Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Gamegenic GmbH is currently prosecuting 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This active matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, BERRY, SAMANTHA MARIE, who is also the busiest examiner for the portfolio with 1 busiest examiner pending action. The concentration of the company's entire active workload under 1 distinct examiner suggests a highly centralized prosecution process at this stage.
The portfolio's activity is further limited to 1 distinct art unit, which indicates a specific technical focus for the current filings. This lack of diversity in art units means that the applicant can apply a consistent procedural approach without needing to adapt to the varying standards of different administrative groups. With 1 pending office action to manage, the company can focus its legal resources on a particular set of examiner concerns.
For patent practitioners, the primary task is to navigate the specific preferences of BERRY, SAMANTHA MARIE. The 1 distinct examiner's historical tendencies will be the most significant factor in determining the outcome of the 1 pending office action. Because the portfolio is currently situated within 1 distinct art unit, the strategy should be tailored to the particular guidelines and trends of that group within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Difficulty is derived from the rejection statutes on the most recent pending office action. §101-driven and multi-statute cases are graded Hard; §112-only and obviousness-type double-patenting cases are graded Easy; everything else is Medium. "Unknown" means we have not yet parsed a statute for that office action.
| Bucket | Cases |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 1 (100%) |
How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.
Manual office-action response work runs about 10 hours per case. The time-saved bands below show what IP Author's prosecution pipeline typically delivers — a conservative 20% on the low end, 35% in the middle, 50% on the high end.
| Examiner | Apps on this docket | Allow rate | Interview lift |
|---|---|---|---|
| BERRY, SAMANTHA MARIE | 1 | 50.0% | +0.0% |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3711 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18546441 | Games box compartment having a movable wall and associated games box | BERRY, SAMANTHA MARIE | 3711 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 28d overdue | Pending | Aug 15, 2023 |
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